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Edict vs Verdict - What's the difference?

edict | verdict |

As nouns the difference between edict and verdict

is that edict is a proclamation of law or other authoritative command while verdict is a decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.

edict

English

(wikipedia edict)

Noun

(en noun)
  • a proclamation of law or other authoritative command

    • Anagrams

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    verdict

    English

    (wikipedia verdict)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (lb) A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.
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  • *:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty —is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
  • An opinion or judgement.
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    • Derived terms

    * verdictive

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